My Next Chapter: Many Mandalas

Friday, January 3, 2020

Many Mandalas

Welcome back to Super Saturday. I hope your New Year is off to a great start. I need to make several birthday cards this month, so I decided to use pieces of the Flower Mandala Background stamp as the focal point on the card. My card is also part of a Magenta blog post which you can see here.

Using my MISTI I stamped the image on the smooth side of watercolor paper, then embossed with gold or silver embossing powder.

I taped the paper to my work surface then I sprinkled nuance over the top. I sprayed with water and then let it sit until dry. (I used Bright Yellow, Orange and Red on one piece; Aquamarine, Lagoon and Violet on another piece.)

I also stamped the image on several different pieces of cardstock - white, tan, gray and blue, with VersaFine Smokey Gray ink. I colored the images with Prismacolor pencils.

I returned the cardstock to my MISTI, generously used the powder tool all over the image and then restamped the image with VersaMark ink. I embossed with gold or silver embossing powder, depending on the color of the cardstock.

I cut the mandala into 1 7/8” strips and I cut a 2 1/8” wide piece of pearlized purple background paper. I placed that on a piece of 3 ¾” x 5” piece of white cardstock to determine where to stamp my sentiment. I stamped the sentiment, then embossed with silver embossing powder. I used a blending brush to add a bit of Tumbled Glass and Wilted Violet Distress ink. I adhered the Mandala strip to the piece of background paper, then adhered them to the left side of the white cardstock. This piece was adhered to another piece of pearlized purple paper then to the front of an A2 card. I finished it off with a few gems.

I ended up with a bunch of images that I can use to create a variety of cards.

I hope you have a wonderful 2020, with lots of opportunities for crafting and creating. Thanks for visiting my blog today.

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